Editing Satellite state (section)

==Post-Cold War usage of the term==
Some commentators have expressed concern that [[United States]] military and diplomatic interventions in the [[Balkans]], in the [[Middle East]], and elsewhere might lead, or perhaps have already led, to the existence of American satellite states.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 August 2007 |title=Serbia Says U.S. Wants Kosovo To Be 'Satellite State.' |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1078172.html |access-date= |website=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bailes |first1=Jon |last2=Aksan |first2=Cihan |date=28 November 2008 |title=On Israel: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein |url=http://www.stateofnature.org/normanFinkelstein.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128045212/http://www.stateofnature.org/normanFinkelstein.html |archive-date=2010-11-28  |access-date= |website=State of Nature: an Online Journal of Radical Ideas}}</ref> [[William Pfaff]] warned that a permanent American presence in [[Iraq]] would "turn Iraq into an American satellite state".<ref>{{cite news |last=Cooley |first=John |date=18 June 2008 |title=How to silence that Iran war drumbeat |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0618/p09s01-coop.htm |access-date=}}</ref> In the Asia-Pacific, John Pilger accused ex Australian Prime Minister John Howard of turning the country into America's 51st state<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2007/03/pilger-australia-howard-bush|title = Australia: the new 51st state| date=5 March 2007 |accessdate = 2014-07-24|archive-date = 2020-12-16|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201216102129/https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2007/03/pilger-australia-howard-bush|url-status = live}}</ref> and [[South Korea]] has regularly been described by [[North Korea]] for being a "puppet state" of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/10/103_360705.html|title = Why does North Korea use term 'puppet' to describe South Korea?|accessdate = 2007-03-05}}</ref>

The term has also been used in the past to describe the relationship between [[Lebanon]] and [[Syria]], as Syria has been accused of intervening in Lebanese political affairs.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wachter |first=Paul |date=January 26, 2002 |title=Who killed Elie Hobeika? |url=http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/lebanon/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523065854/http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/lebanon/index.html |archive-date=May 23, 2010 |access-date= |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]]}}</ref> 

In addition, [[Eswatini]] and [[Lesotho]] have both been described as satellite states of [[South Africa]].<ref name="Kamrava2008">{{cite book |author=Mehran Kamrava |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtiFy3vlufYC&pg=PA73 |title=Understanding Comparative Politics: A Framework for Analysis |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-415-77304-1 |pages=73}}</ref>